Fast Fashion/Slow Art encourages the scrutiny of today’s garment industry, inviting a conversation about the production and distribution of clothing and textiles in the globalized world. Features eleven films, videos and video installations by various artists.

The New Museum in NY is currently exhibiting the first museum survey of Nari Ward’s work. We the People features over thirty sculptures, paintings, videos, and large-scale installations from throughout Ward’s twenty-five-year career. On view through May 26th

Artists, quiltmakers and activists contribute to The Migrant Quilt Project as a way to express compassion for migrants from Mexico and Central America. Migrant Quilts on view at the University of Arizona Poetry Center and the International Quilt Study Center and Museum.

Suzanne Bocanegra’s Poorly Watched Girls explores the way popular entertainment portrays women in trouble. Textile, collage, performance, staging and video all merge together for this culmination of her artist-in-residency at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. On view through February 17.

Fashion Statements surveys a century of dress in Israel, exploring late 19th-century indigenous fashion, the opposing forces of Europeanism and Orientalism, and Israeli creative influences in the global fashion scene today. On view through April 6th.

The International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be opening a new exhibition featuring West Indian quilts. Collecting and Recollecting: Contemporary Quilts in Western India opens on February 22.